Sarah Pillsbury(I)
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Minnesotan Sarah Pillsbury attended Yale University and studied film
and African history in the late 1960s. She once took a break from her
studies to live in Africa to learn about it first thand. After
graduation, she moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s to continue her
film studies at UCLA, work on student film projects and help produce
documentaries. One of the student projects she worked on became the
feature film Eraserhead (1977) directed by AFI student 'David Lynch'. She co-produced a
short film, Board and Care (1980) that delivered Pillsbury an Oscar for Best Live
Action Short Film. In 1981, she teamed up with Midge Sanford to form
Sanford/Pillsbury Productions. They have produced many feature film
projects including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), River's Edge (1986) and the HBO telefilm, And the Band Played On (1993) - the
latter two projects earning the team an Independent Spirit Award and an
Emmy. She is the mother of a daughter and a son.